A prescription for gross conventionality

Last week (or month), Michael Jackson (MJ) might have created a new world record which nobody must have taken a note of - "Person who caused highest number of upheavals in IM (instant messenger) user's status messages". I managed to capture few. Please note that I am not maligning any of the status messages in any way, they are 'strictly' copied as they are/were. (The IT criminal law hasn't reached a level where they can sue me for copying my friend's status messages...phew!!)

Messages which I think are explicitly referring to MJs demise

• "Death of Legend"
• "I lost my hero"
• "RIP MJ" (I didn't know wat RIP meant, but 4 such status messages made me push the limits to go check on it, and now I know!!... imagine how I must have read it without knowing what RIP stands for - "rip michael jackson"...I was like - man, atleast now, leave him alone!!! :D )
• "He taught me how to dance" (I didn't know MJ was a personal trainer too)

Messages which I think may or may not referr to MJs demise

• "I cried" (Okay...thats way too much of personal information!!)

And my personal favorite

• "I want to live his life" (As soon as I saw this, I pinged MJs wiki page to him/her thinking that he/she may not know how much debt he was under)

Now, the question is, why did I name the entry - "A prescription for gross conventionality". MJs death has created such a hoopla, that Iran's current political turmoil seemed lilliputian. I even started wondering if people have any idea what is going on there. To assuage my curiosity, I asked about it (Iran's situation) to 10 random people and if it is affecting any of the status messages (if not life). I got some ghastly responses and I think they were too lame to even figure here (Don't worry, none of these 10 people will read my blog!!). This exercise was disappointing and it marked the search for a title for this entry and I believe that I have come with an appropriate one - A prescription for gross conventionality!! The conventionality being what people normally do/did and gross being how they tend to ignore equally or more important facts only for reasons beyond my comprehension!!!